February 2007MCST - FP7 Launch1 Michael Rosner Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence University of Malta

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February 2007MCST - FP7 Launch3 CSAI Areas of Specialisation Algorithmics –Formal methods –Software verification Distributed Computing –Grid Architectures –High Performance Software Engineering –Engineering principles applied to software design Internet Technologies –Web Services –Semantic Web Artificial Intelligence –Intelligent Agents –Machine Learning Human Language Technologies –Information Extraction –Machine Translation eLearning –Interactive Delivery –Adaptive Systems

February 2007MCST - FP7 Launch4 Current Research Projects NameAreaPeriodFunding 1. MLRSLT2005-7MCST 2. MVUeL2004-7EUROMED 3. COLLEGEeL2006-8UoM 4. REWERSES Web2004-7EU/FP6 5. LT4eLLT/eL2005-8EU/FP6 6. Functional Meta- Languages for Hardware Compiler Specification HW Spec UoM

February 2007MCST - FP7 Launch5 Mediterranean Virtual University

February 2007MCST - FP7 Launch6 MVU - EUMEDIS Current Building the infrastructure for a collaborative international university in the Mediterranean region Intended The establishment of a virtual university, complete with administrative structures, registration, accreditation, and equivalency models.

February 2007MCST - FP7 Launch7 Participating Countries from Mediterranean Region Cyprus UK Denmark Malta Palestine Lebanon Egypt Jordan

February 2007MCST - FP7 Launch8 UoM's Contribution Learning Management System (based on Moodle) Creation of Pilot Course Content –ICT subject matter, based on ACM syllabus –40 courses between 8 partners –Each course equivalent to 5 ECTS credits

February 2007MCST - FP7 Launch9 UoM's Contribution Learning Management System (based on Moodle) Creation of Pilot Course Content –ICT subject matter, based on ACM syllabus –40 courses between 8 partners –Each course equivalent to 5 ECTS credits

February 2007MCST - FP7 Launch10 REWERSE – FP6 NOE Reasoning on the Web with Rules and Semantics Objective is to establish Europe as a leader in reasoning languages for the Web Develop basis for industrial software development of advanced Web systems and applications.

February 2007MCST - FP7 Launch11 REWERSE Working Groups Rule Markup –rule languages Policies –specification, enforcement, integration Web Service Composition ** –software composition over the web Query –reasoning-aware querying Evolution –management of change on the Web Time and Location ** –temporal & spatial reasoning on the Web: Bioinformatics –Semantic web tailored to bioinformatics domain Personalisation ** –adaptive information systems and personalized e-commerce systems

February 2007MCST - FP7 Launch12 LT4eL Language Technology for eLearning eLearningLanguage Technology LT 4 eL

February 2007MCST - FP7 Launch13 LT4eL Start date: 1 December 2005 Duration: 30 months Partners: 12 EU financing: 1.5 million Euro Type project: STREP IST

February 2007MCST - FP7 Launch14 LT4eL- Objectives -1- Scientific/Technological Objectives –Integration of language technology resources and tools in eLearning –Integration of semantic knowledge in eLearning –Improve retrieval of learning material –CLIR

February 2007MCST - FP7 Launch15 LT4eL - Languages Bulgarian Czech Dutch English German Maltese Polish Portuguese Romanian

February 2007MCST - FP7 Launch16 LT4eL- Objectives -2- Political objectives –Support multilinguality –Knowledge transfer –Awareness raising –Exploitation of resources –Facilitate access to education

February 2007MCST - FP7 Launch17 Tasks Creation of an archive of learning objects Semi-automatic metadata generation driven by NLP: –Keyword extractor –Definition extractor Enhancing eLearning with semantic knowledge –ontologies Integration/validation of functionalities in LMS (ILIAS); Develop multilingual access

February 2007MCST - FP7 Launch18 Lexikon CZ EN CONVERTOR 1 Documents SCORM Pseudo-Struct. Basic XML LING. PROCESSOR Lemmatizer, POS, Partial Parser CROSSLINGUAL RETRIEVAL LMS User Profile Documents SCORM Pseudo-Struct Metadata (Keywords) Ling. Annot XML Ontology CONVERTOR 2 Documents HTML Lexikon PT Lexikon RO Lexikon PL Lexicon GE Lexikon MT Lexikon BG Lexikon DT Lexicon EN PLGE BG PTMTDTRO EN Documents User (PDF, DOC, HTML, SCORM,XML) REPOSITORY Glossary

February 2007MCST - FP7 Launch19 Summary: Is Participation Worth it? PROS Multicultural and Multidisciplinary Environment Funding for Research Staff International Profile for Institution European Team Operation CONS High Initial Investment Administration and Reporting & Financial Arrangements Collaboration at a distance takes effort